Big data security startup Gazzang announced its latest encryption and key management solution for OpenStack clouds, according to a company press release. Gazzang partners discuss what it will mean for them and those looking to partner with the security company.

Leveraging infrastructure from cloud providers such as Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure is a cost-effective way to conduct big data analytics projects, but it comes with a variety of data protection risks, according to experts.

Some storage startups in the first half of 2013 came out of stealth mode, some unveiled their first products or channels, and some got acquired, all of which combined to ensure the storage business remains an exciting market in which to be.

The Asigra Recovery License Model, introduced at Asigra's partner conference, scales the cost of disaster recovery plans based on how much data is restored, not backed up, with one partner calculating that customers could cut the cost of cloud data protection by up to two-thirds.

It's been a mixed first six months on Wall Street for tech vendors, with some vendors like Hewlett-Packard seeing big run-ups in stock prices and others like FalconStor recording big drops in share value.

The new Asigra Cloud Backup 12.2 now allows solution providers and MSPs to add cloud-to-cloud backup capabilities to Google Apps and also features one-pass backup of Microsoft Exchange 2013 and enhanced virtual disaster recovery.

Organizations are increasingly turning to stronger authentication and data encryption to protect sensitive data migrating to the cloud. Trust in cloud providers also is on the rise, according to a recent Ponemon Institute survey.